Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Writings of Eloise Keeler: poems, plays, short stories; Pet columns for San Francisco Examiner, 1965-1975; some correspondence and some family photographs.
- Biographical / historical:
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Eloise Keeler was born on April 5, 1905, to prominent Berkeley writer Charles Augustus Keeler, and artist and photographer Louise Mapes Bunnell Keeler. Eloise Keeler graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1926, majoring in economics and acted in student productions. Keeler was a free-lance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing in many different genres including short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, plays, screenplays, radio and television scripts, poetry and a biography on her brother Leonarde Keeler. Eloise Keeler died in Marin County, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2000.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Ann Sterling Miller, 1985, with later additions.
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research. Some items damaged by fire: restricted use.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Berkeley Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the archivist of the Society. Permission for publication is given as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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Eloise Keeler papers and family materials. Berkeley Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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1931 Center StreetBerkeley, CA 94704, US
- Contact:
- (510) 848-0181